ESRC joint submissions on EU General Data Protection Regulation in the UK

25 Jul 2017 11:14 AM

In May, the Economic and Social Research Council was a co-signatory for two submissions to the UK Government's Call for Views on the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the GDPR) in the UK.

ESRC has made the case for exemptions for research and to ensure that valuable work in the humanities and social sciences is appropriately recognised when the new framework comes into force in May 2018.